masu

Meaning

Noun

• A plant, Hedysarum alpinum (species), whose edible root is consumed by the Inuit of Alaska.
• A square wooden box, originally used to measure rice in Japan during the feudal period.
• masu salmon (Oncorhynchus masou (species))

Origin

• From Inupiaq masu.
• From Japanese 枡.
• From Japanese 鱒 ("trout, sea trout, salmon").